All you need to know: Toulouse-Paris!
The history, stakes and keys to the game - all you need to know ahead of Wednesday's Ligue 1 encounter in the south west of France.
A LITTLE HISTORY
The two sides will be meeting for the 73rd time in all competitions: the Parisians' record reads 41 wins, 13 draws, and 18 defeats so far.
It's in Toulouse, on 26 July 1985, that Paris Saint-Germain first hit the top of the Ligue 1 table. Since, they have been in first place on 407 occasions.
Nineteen players have played for both teams: Serge Aurier, Jack Bade, Gilles Brisson, François Calderaro, Bruno Carotti, Clément Chantôme, José Cobos, Omar Da Fonseca, Stéphane Dalmat, Nicolas Douchez, Claude Lowitz, Cédric Pardeilhan, Paulo , Adrien Rabiot, Christophe Revault, Pierre Reynaud, Dominique Rocheteau, Jean-Luc Sassus, Patrice Ségura.
With nine goals, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the Club's top scorer against Toulouse. He's ahead of Safet Susic (7), Javier Pastore & Dominique Rocheteau (5), and Ezequiel Lavezzi (4).
THE STAKES...
League leaders Paris Saint-Germain will want to get back to winning ways after Sunday's draw with Monaco (1-1).
Paris are unbeaten in their last 12 Ligue 1 games (8 wins, 4 draws) scoring 42 and conceding only 12 in that time.
The Club has an exceptional away record of late with 28 goals from their last five league trips: Clermont (6-1), Angers (3-0), Strasbourg (3-3), Montpellier (4-0), Clermont again (5-0) and Lille (7-1).
Paris are unbeaten in their last five league games against Toulouse: 6-2 & 1-0 in 2017/18, 1-0 & 1-0 in 2018/19, 4-0 in 2019/20. The Parisian defence has not conceded a single goal to Toulouse in their last four meetings.
KEYS TO THE match...
Neymar Jr has scored in each of his last six league games, netting nine times in total vs. Metz (last season), Nantes (2), Clermont, Montpellier (2), Lille (2) & Monaco.
Kylian Mbappé has found the net 10 times in his last five league away matches.
